All right... This is a very difficult and serious entry.
I´m watching TV at the moment, where they´re broadcasting the trial in Oslo, Norway against the massmurdered Anders Behring Breivik. I don´t know why I´m watching it, it´s quite... hard - but I was curious and here I am.
I feel nothing what so ever for the man. He has shown no feelings what so ever - until they showed a video he´d made and uploaded on YouTube and he started weeping! He didn´t show any feelings what so ever, no remorse at all when the names of the youngsters he killed on Utøya on 22 July 2011... but he cried for a video. That gives you an idea of how... fucked up he is.
Since Finland has suffered from two school shootings, I have a pretty good idea of what the Norwegian people must be going through or have went through, at least. I realize that the school shootings cannot be compared to the acts of terrorism that took place in Oslo last year... However, I can relate to the mixed emotions one felt after finding out and maybe what Norwegians feel today when the trial has started today.
Especially when the second school shooting happened in Kauhajoki, I was beyond shocked and it didn´t sink in until I watched the news on TV in the late evening. Kauhajoki is 70km from Töjby, I went to school there for a year and I´ve been there several times on cycling competitons, I know several people from there (through the cycling) + J is from there (he was strangely enough the first one I thought about when I heard about the shooting)...
The first school shooting in Jokela was horrific as well and I was of course moved by that as well but like I said, Kauhajoki was more close to home and... Well, I explained it.
However, this isn´t about the school shootings, this is about the horrible, horrible events in Norway.
As you may recall, I went to Stockholm only days after those events and we drove past the Norwegian Embassy, where it was filled with flowers outside the gate. This was on the last day of my visit in Stockholm. Days before, we attended Allsång på Skansen, where the host - the fabolous Måns Zelmerlöw - dedicated the first song to Norway. Such a lovely gesture...
Now I will make dinner for myself and clean the appartment. I´m awaiting guests for tonight.
Take care
x
Since Finland has suffered from two school shootings, I have a pretty good idea of what the Norwegian people must be going through or have went through, at least. I realize that the school shootings cannot be compared to the acts of terrorism that took place in Oslo last year... However, I can relate to the mixed emotions one felt after finding out and maybe what Norwegians feel today when the trial has started today.
Especially when the second school shooting happened in Kauhajoki, I was beyond shocked and it didn´t sink in until I watched the news on TV in the late evening. Kauhajoki is 70km from Töjby, I went to school there for a year and I´ve been there several times on cycling competitons, I know several people from there (through the cycling) + J is from there (he was strangely enough the first one I thought about when I heard about the shooting)...
The first school shooting in Jokela was horrific as well and I was of course moved by that as well but like I said, Kauhajoki was more close to home and... Well, I explained it.
However, this isn´t about the school shootings, this is about the horrible, horrible events in Norway.
As you may recall, I went to Stockholm only days after those events and we drove past the Norwegian Embassy, where it was filled with flowers outside the gate. This was on the last day of my visit in Stockholm. Days before, we attended Allsång på Skansen, where the host - the fabolous Måns Zelmerlöw - dedicated the first song to Norway. Such a lovely gesture...
Now I will make dinner for myself and clean the appartment. I´m awaiting guests for tonight.
Take care
x
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